Although the aesthetics and premise seems interesting, the gameplay just feels awkward. It has one of the most unfair detection systems that I've ever seen in a stealth game. That makes that every little movement or sound spots you. There are so many places were you're forced to pass with a perfect timing and a minimal deviation will make trigger an alarm. Shadows almost don't hide you, neither the height or objects. so you don't feel stealthy in this game, that's a quite basic requirment for an stealth game.
Good puzzle/escape room game. Puzzles are not so challenging apart of the time constrain that's the only thing adding difficulty. It feels a bit short though.
It’s a very good open world game with a great atmosphere and a huge amount of content. The locations and characters fully immerse you in the world described in the books and movies. The main story is quite good, long and includes new additions to the lore that haven’t been seen before. Combat is one of the game’s strong points, with a wide variety of options for both attacks and enemy control. There are different patterns that are useful against different types of enemies, along with talent upgrades that add even more possibilities. It’s a system that can be easy to exploit, but it’s also a lot of fun. On top of that, there are plants and potions that expand the possibilities even further. Flying is enjoyable enough that you don’t always feel the need to use fast travel, which is quite unusual in games of this type. Special mention should go to the side quests. Each of them is different in terms of characters, stories and locations. They’re very well designed and don’t feel repetitive, which is quite rare in open-world games. Some of them even contain as much content as the main quest. The collectibles, on the other hand, even though there are several variations for finding them or solving the puzzles, eventually become repetitive since there are dozens of each type. The game has several bugs and isn’t completely polished, but nothing that breaks the game or becomes especially annoying. Perhaps the most negative aspect is the lack of depth in some systems. For example, the nonexistent morality system means that neither dialogue choices nor actions have any consequences, so decisions end up feeling meaningless. You can also steal or kill without any consequences, even in front of NPCs. This is a system that every good RPG has had for decades and this one should have it too.
Good game with a very original atmosphere and theme. Beautiful and moving. Special mention goes to the soundtrack, which is excellent. A good story with peculiar characters, all of them with very strong personalities, you end up loving many of them, while others you’d gladly throw overboard. Toward the end, it becomes quite repetitive, and resource gathering and crafting start to feel rather tedious.
Good game with great atmosphere, solid graphics, soundtrack and excellent combat. It has just the right amount of exploration and puzzles to keep the combat from feeling too constant. The story is quite cliché and not very original, a typical vendetta between mortals and gods that we’ve seen countless times before. There are few options when it comes to weapons and powers. Combat becomes fairly repetitive toward the end, especially with certain enemies that are damage sponges, requiring you to repeat the same pattern for quite a while until they finally go down.
Excellent game. It could be not for anyone, but if you're an RPG fan it's just perfect.
The art, the music, the ambient and localization is great and done with a lot of detail.
The gameplay is brilliant and fresh. The idea of making all progression depend on conversations and inner reasoning is brilliant. It’s very well executed, since your current and past decisions, items, skills, and so on all come together to influence your progress and determine whether or not you succeed in your tasks. It’s like a huge machine, full of small gears that produce different results depending on how they’re **** a conversation-driven RPG, the story and characters have to be excellent or everything would fall apart. In this case, the main story and the subplots are very well written, and each character has an overwhelming and strongly defined **** top of that, there are many side tasks of varying importance that you can choose to complete or ignore, each with its own rewards or **** conclusion, this game presents a world full of possibilities where every decision matters and has repercussions, as you move forward along different paths that lead to different endings or ways of facing ****’s the kind of game that, once you finish it, you wish you could play again for the first time and rediscover everything from scratch.
First title in the series that seems a complete game instead of a demo. It has more planets, more scenes, better puzzles and a good story. Now there's a good game together with the nice graphics that were always there.
The tactical part of the game is great. I enjoyed a lot the core mechanics of the combat, level design and characters abilities.
The issue is everything oustide the levels.Between levels you need to manage the base, the soldiers, build rooms, research, travel to new locations. And that part is tedious and with really few information to take decisions. No info about the reasearch outputs, no info on how to prioritize missions, no info on which buildings are critical for the storyline, ... All of that with an annoying countdown and taking decisions based on a guess that can greatly affect your progress.
I would have appreciated a liniar story and progress more than this.
Good game with nice graphics,good gameplay and controls and great humor. The possibilities to manage the hospital, employees, rooms, decorations are huge.
The issue is that it's becoming repetitive soon.
A good GTA clone. Its graphical quality is slightly below that of its rival, but it makes up for it with a good story, great NPCs, plenty of humor and a much more over-the-top tone. Each gang’s missions have a different theme and are very diverse. The same goes for the side missions, which come in many varieties and are a lot of fun. It has a good number of weapons and vehicles available,and a map of decent size. It might be missing perhaps one area that isn’t within the city, though. It has several bugs that can occasionally block your progress, but they aren’t frequent. The physics, both for characters and driving, could be improved and feel quite weird. The biggest problem it has is the spontaneous spawning and despawning of vehicles every time you turn the camera. The object rendering is very inconsistent. Many times the roads are empty and you have to wait for cars to arrive from the other end of the street. It’s easy for a car to disappear when you turn the camera or go around a corner. Even the car you parked will quickly vanish as soon as it’s out of sight. The same happens with the NPCs moving around the city. Its rendering system causes dozens of identical elements to appear every few cycles, same cars, same NPCs, making the rest of the models unavailable until several cycles later. All of this, in a game that is basically about finding and grabbing cars, ends up being very frustrating.
It’s one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. It’s huge, with thousands of things to do, and it never feels empty. The story is deep, very well written, and the voice acting is excellent. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing, one of the best in the history of video games. The character-building options are outstanding: race, weapons, magic, skills, clothing, and more. And all of it evolves dynamically as you play, meaning no two playthroughs are the same and you can create completely different characters with total freedom, without predefined **** level scaling is a bit uneven in some areas, especially open ones, while in dungeons it remains solid. There are hundreds of side quests. Some of them have so much content and story that they even surpass the main plot, while others are quite short and repetitive.
Fun and enjoyable game. Simple to learn but hard to master. There’s a small variety of weapons and movesets, which helps keep the character balance good. But on the other hand, it also makes the game a bit more boring, it feels a little plain. I found that after several hours, it becomes repetitive.
A simple 2D puzzle game, mainly focused on creating paths with shadows while controlling two characters with different perspectives.
It adds different twysts to the shadows mechanics in each chapter, although all of them are quite simple. It has a nice art and music.
The game feels a bit short though. The story is super poor, no context at all of what and why are we doing what we do. Also no information about why there are "magical" things happeing, neither any info about the companion.
And then the game ends with a super disappointing ending.
Good platform game with great art and soundtrack, lots of humor and good gameplay. It's short and not so complicated. Mixing short battles, puzzles and action/running stages.
The controls on these action stages feel a bit weird at the point I changed the controls assignation just for these ones.
Nice point and click game (with a cards twist) with excellent art work and humor.
It's super short and easy. Unfortunatelly requires many playthroughs to see all the scenes and unlock the achievements.
Great hidden objects game. Nice black and white art, funny scenes and crazy voice acting.
Different scenario locations with some changes on the puzzles. Not so many scenarios but it's fine as it can become repetitive if there were more.
Great point-and-click game with a solid story and excellent graphics. The length is quite short and its puzzles are generally complex. Some of these puzzles could be described as “happy ideas,” since their solutions feel implausible and it’s unlikely you’d figure them out unless by chance. It has save-related issues, to the point that the developer had to add an option to jump to any selected checkpoint.
Fun game for a while. But soon becomes too repetitive. It lacks of any sense of progress. You unlock some items and characters but the lack of new maps, different enemies or zones, no story... it just feels empty and not contributing to keep playing.
There's nothing explaining the game mechanincs, controls or options. You'r just thrown to the arena and learn by trial and error. There are important mechanics that I lost during a lot of time because nobody tells you about it.
Also the progression it's so RNG based, if you don't have a decent roll with the items in the shop you cannot progress.
Possibly the most boring Tomb Raider game in the series. It's excessively long and gives the impression that several mechanics are there just to stretch out the playtime. There's a huge amount of backtracking, level revisits, running back and forth to unlock paths in earlier levels, moving objects between levels, and many slow crawling sections that become tedious. Mechanics that don’t work well with the tank controls have been introduced, like rope swinging or aiming weapons. The game is full of invincible enemies or ones that can only be destroyed with explosives, which makes most weapons and ammo almost useless. On top of that, the game is full of bugs—many, many bugs—some of which can even prevent you from progressing. The only good part is the puzzles. There are a lot of them and they’re quite varied, although some completely lack any logical sense.
Nice platform and puzzle solving game. Simple but perfectly executed.
The withe and black palette works pretty well to transmit an oppresive scenario.
It could be easly called "1000 different ways to die in the abyss". I was not expecting that amount of gore deaths.
Some puzzles are quite difficult + many of them require a perfect timing and ability.
Not a game.
Is just a visual novel with some clicks here and there. The gameplay consists in clicking objects already marcked with a circle, so you don't even need to find them, and read the letters or watch the cinematic. Until you click the object that makes you progress. That's all, no puzzles, no searching, no need to think.
In between you have long walks, long phylosophical talks and paused cinematics that made me stand like 10min just watching a movie, since I can do any action again.
In top of that someone thought adding QTE to a supposed point and click game will work. No QTE are just annoying.
A conversion of Bioshock to the stealth genre. Reducing the weapons and powers and making the user more fragile in comparison with the enemies.
The issue is that Bioshock has not the core mechanics to be a stealth game. No clean and well implemented execution system. Cannot hide corpses. Not hiding spots or mechanics. No way to to watch from the corners. No way to use or benefit from higer or lower position.
Overall you need to be quite lucky to do not be detected otherwise you'll have a hard moment with all the map chasing you with almost no weapons.
Rapture looks great with Infinite graphics but the gameplay feels weird.
The Infinite game design does not fit well with Rapture restrictions: less enemies but harder, way less ammunition, less powers and more plasmid use.
Overall the gameplay does not feel comfortable. You don't have the proper tools to play well. Not enough ammunition for an RTS, not enough plasmids for full magic approach, not good stealth to avoid combat, ...
The best game in the trilogy. A great graphical improvement with more open and less oppressive spaces, larger-scale battles and more spectacular events. The combat feels much better than in its predecessors. There are more enemies on screen and a greater variety at the same time, making the gameplay more challenging and tactical. There are also numerous combat tools that can be used dynamically, adding a lot of depth to the combat system. The game strongly encourages the use of powers, given the number and types of enemies, they are almost indispensable. For the first time in the series, powers feel truly useful and rewarding. It features what is possibly the best video game companion ever created. Not only do you not have to worry about her safety, but she also provide valuable active support. She moves faster than you, so you never have to wait for her and she points out relevant things without being intrusive or repetitive. She supplies you with ammo, powers and healing. She opens you doors and points you to the right direction. And most importantly, she has natural and limited conversations, she's not the typical repetitive and insistent companion. Instead, she comments on relevant plot points when appropriate and remains silent when necessary. All of this makes you genuinely connect with the character. The story is excellent, full of intrigue until the very end. Much better than in the previous games. The only downside is that it feels largely disconnected from the Bioshock world until almost the very end, to the point where it could seem like an entirely separate game from the series.
Simple and cute exploration and puzzle solving game with a nice story.
None of the puzzles is really complicated. Most of the difficulty resides in searching the correct spot to reach some roof or searching for some hidden object. It has a good variety of puzzles though.
Lots of collectibles some easy and others hard to find, but the game gives you tools to locate every single one.
It maybe lacks some progression in the character, powers, abilities.
I was a bit worried that the game might become too repetitive since repetition is its core mechanic and it doesn’t have many levels or a wide variety of **** my surprise, it doesn’t feel repetitive at all. Despite having only a few levels, you have to visit them at different times of the day, which opens or closes different sections. The enemies, bosses, and traps also change. Additionally, as you progress through the story, you unlock more areas of each map. So with every visit, there are new sections to explore, new objectives and a completely different ****’s very satisfying to see how events connect, allowing you to discover optimal ways to eliminate bosses, force them to change locations and more. The game uses a progressive mission system to guide you and track new discovieries, ensuring the repetition loop doesn’t become confusing. The level of detail in the maps is excellent, and the variety of options to tackle any challenge is very well designed, this is Arkane’s strong point. Character, weapon and power customization is quite extensive. Even though they’re not bad, neither the combat nor the powers feel as polished as in other Arkane games. Especially in terms of stealth that's not very effective, making it unsatisfying and if it fails, you’re almost forced to eliminate all NPCs. There are countless hidden secrets to discover. Some are well-hinted through clues, while others are nearly impossible to figure out without a guide. The multiplayer is practically dead at this point, so it’s not worth it.
Great and beautiful small game. Aesthetically, it's awesome, and the soundtrack is also quite good. The basic objects, people, and animals you need to find are fairly easy, so you can always progress until the end. However, if you're aiming for 100% completion, it will take some time, and some findings can be quite tricky. Overall, a great experience to enjoy for a few hours.
Not a bad game, but it could have been more.Overall, it's a good idea and well-executed. A relaxing and easy fishing experience while uncovering details of a mystery plot. There are some upgrades here and there, along with some material **** completionists, there's a fish catalog to complete.Beyond that, there’s not much else. It lacks depth, additional content, and something more to keep players engaged.
Awesome game!
Its secret is that makes everything simple. You learn through playing and every time you can reach further and have more and more options.
It's super rewarding because every run you unlock a few weapons, bonus, stages and/or characters.
You die every run, but you want more as the game is rewarding you for this death.
The runs are quite fast (15-30min) so it's a great game for people not plenty of time.
The level of characterization and improvement is high if you want to deep dive into the endgame builds.
The only drawback I found is that it relies too much on external content, as many weapon mechanics, evolutions and secrets are almost impossible to learn in-game.
Early and Mid level it's great and fun game.
Art is nice, there are lots of things to do, many mechanincs, weapons, dungeons, every new island gives new content...
But late game is super boring. The progression feels good 90% of the game, but the last 10% is an endless grinding.
With no new islands, no new content, no history and no general purpose it has no sense to keep playing at a certain point.
It's an excellent game, massive, and full of possibilities. The story and interactions with NPCs are very well done. Most of the side missions, however, are significantly weaker. The graphics are great and have aged well. The gameplay is the best part of the game, with both combat and parkour feeling smooth and satisfying. The difficulty is well-balanced—it's not frustrating, but a single mistake can make your game much more **** atmosphere is incredible, effectively conveying the tension and stress of being in a dangerous zone, especially at night.There are some aspects that could be improved, such as the inventory, the information displayed, the crafting system, and the marker guidance. However, the biggest flaw of the game is that after so many hours and all the experience you've gained, the final boss ends up being a Quick Time Event. That's a big letdown.
Fun game to play.
Interesting plot and character interactions.
Good combat with an original approach most focused on companions actions than yourself. Many different combat options and combos, not super deep but fun.
There are several game choices that can change a bit the game progress. That's fun, although you have little time to choose and don't exactly know the result of your choice since some time after.
Maybe one of the biggest concers is that between each combat arena and the next, the game is just a linear walking simulator. At least during those long walks you can have funny talks with your mates.
A combat and beat'em up oriented metrodiviana.
With fantastic graphics, a not bad story and espectacular and enjoyable combat.
Quite buggy though, especially with the controls. A not so polished controls input and lag makes it quite frustrating when the character is not properly responding to the controller inputs.
Superb survival and exploration game.
It has excellent atmosphere, creature and map designs, achieving total immersion. It is simultaneously beautiful, strange, unsettling, and to some extent, terrifying. The crafting possibilities, variety of materials, vehicles, and base construction are enormous but not overwhelming. The story and lore are fantastic—a puzzle that you piece together gradually, learning more and more about the planet and its past and present inhabitants. The only downside is the optimization and several significant bugs that can ruin your game.
It's the kind of game that you really wish you can forget and play again for the first time!
A pretty bad game, frankly. Technically very poor, with small, poorly designed maps. Full of loading zones, including annoying quick time events (narrow corridors, windows, etc.) meant only to buy time for loading the next area. Having to go through a QTE and a long animation for every window is very tiresome and makes navigating the map very confusing. Not having a free jump in this kind of games is just ridiculous. The story makes no sense at all. It's long and boring. It has a very annoying scripted AI that changes position or patrols based on where your character is, just to make your progress difficult. This should be impossible if it doesn't know where you are, and it makes no sense in a stealth game. The only part of the game I liked is the lockpicking system. It's much better than in most games.
In comparison, 2 years before Dishonored did everything 10 times better.
Great game that does many things well, but perhaps none excellently. The choice to create medium-sized maps/planets to explore is really clever. Each planet/location feels new, with enough details and things to do. This approach is far superior to having a huge, mostly empty map. The story is quite good but not superb. It feels a bit rushed towards the end. Companions, dialogue, and quests are fine. Many of the quests and interactions don't have a significant impact, but at least there are no filler quests. The faction system probably needs some reworking. It's too easy to please everyone by following an 'honorable' path. There aren't enough choices that truly force you to side with one faction at the expense of another, resulting in you ending the game as everyones super friend. Given the amount of conversation in the game, having voice acting would have been appreciated. The variety of weapons, gear, and enemies is quite low. While this was interesting at the beginning, it becomes a bit boring in the mid-to-late game. The weapons durability & repair function is super annoying. Even with perks to reduce it you cannot complete half of a quest without the weapon partially damaged so its damage reduced. I particularly love the ending footage explaining what happened to everyone based on your actions. It's an Obsidian trademark.
This game aged so bad and has so many bugs so you need some heavy patching to be able to play it.Graphics and controls are **** menus are a pain, with too many items all together and with large text descriptions to figure out what an item is really **** combat system is a mess. A hybrid real time/turn based system that's not working well at all. You need to switch between companions and skills often and at some time you lose control and everybody is triggering unwanted actions. Unless you pause the combat every 1 second and reassign all the actions again, that makes the whole process really boring.Companions quests are really disappointing. You talk a lot with them to unlock the quest and at the end you just have a 5min quest with an easy **** only thing that saves this game is the great story. One of the best I have ever seen on the Star Wars franchise.
A visual novel with a few easy nonogram puzzles here and there.
The story is super simple and silly. You can never belive that a police department inspector misses so many easy clues that a simple actress can find.
There's like 10min of avoidable text in between every playable/puzzle section. So the game is more about reading than about playing.
Almost as good as the previous **** story is much worse. Not bad, but divided into several parts not connected to each other and with most of the facts quite implausible. It could easily have ended in Act 3, since the last one is totally unnecessary and adds **** beginning of the game maintains the same gameplay as Shadow of Mordor but with more possibilities and slightly improved graphics.Weapons, equipment and gems are added to customize the character and add bonuses, which is great. However, upgrading them is painful since you have to do unlock missions to let you buy the upgrade. That requires a lot of grinding, luck, and paying close attention to the **** operation of the Nemesis system is greatly improved, with more types of orcs, more interactions and many combinations and **** the middle of the game the functionality of carrying out sieges as both an attacker and a defender is added. Initially it is a great addition, with many possibilities and a different game mode than the one already known. But it soon becomes tedious since most of the preparation consists of properly preparing the leaders: level, weapons, gang, ...And this requires a lot of searching, training, management, ... which is not so fun.
Awesome game. The gameplay is almost perfect. Challenging combats, many options to face them. Many companions, elections and builds. All the scenarios are well done and unique. They removed the car/exploration sections that were so boring. Sprint duration was also fixed. Decoding minigames also removed. So only one annoying thing remains that's the artifacts exploration feature. There are lots of stories, side quests, companions quests, and most of them are fascinating and are driving bigger plot changes than ever. As usual in the franchise the dialogs are well written and interesting. There are still many dialog selections pointing to the same result or maybe not the expected one. The DLCs contribute with good stories and worth content. Historically many people complained about the overall story and specifically the endings. In my experience this 3rd chapter is the most epic of all, with the hardest and saddest decisions. And my ending, in my opinion, was a perfect conclusion for the saga.
Super lineal game with a disappointing story and ending. Graphics and animations are quite bad. Most of the game you're in stealth but not so many stealth mechanics were developed, just don't stay in the light feature. You can't move corpses, the NPCs AI is not well implemented to patrol, search, ... NPCs can see you from 1 km away, no killing animations. The monsters are bullet sponges at the point that you doubt if you really can kill them. Even worse because some are really immortal and you never know. No information at all about the weapons. No stats, or something to compare weapons and know wich one is better. You need to realize about the mods by sight in a small draw were you can barely differentiate a silencer from an extended cannon. No weapon names being shown, so you don't really know what you're picking up, and some weapons are too similar to realize it. Completely broken morale system. Having different endings based not in your decisions but in random events like listening NPCs conversations when the game doesn't teach you about this system is just stupid. The only good point is the immersion. Small details like the lighter, compass, watch and gas mask implementation makes you feel like you're there and need to use real gadgets to do your job.
Beautiful and relaxing game... but unfortunately not a lot more to say. The gameplay is just about swimming and scanning fishes/whales. The story is simple with a disappointing ending. Lots of melodramatic talks that add nothing to the game. And even being so simple and with so few features the game is not well implemented. Like never removing the warning mark from new fish discoveries, so you always need to check all of them to find something new. Or the quick access screen not working, when scanning something new.
Improves every single aspect from its predecessor. The story is super well written. The decisions and different ways you approach the missions makes you be part of this story. There are a lot more companions, that means lot more of side quests, every of them super well designed so are really enjoyable. The combat improved a lot. Is more tactical, more difficult. You can be killed easily so you need to plan and use companions wisely. The scenarios also improved a lot, all of them being unique. Planet exploration was almost removed and that's good because was boring and not well implemented. Item and skills management was simplified so you don't need to lose a lot of time on managing inventory, weapons and so on. My only complains: - The part of the Citadelle that you can visit now is so small. - The sprint time is still laughable. - Still many dialog selections trigger the same result. And so many times the selection doesn't fit the expected dialog. - Minerals gathering through probes is boring.
Good aesthetics, story and sound. Plenty of gadgets as usual in the franchise but without any innovation. The game is quite well balanced. Good difficulty curve with several hard but not frustrating fights. As any game of this franchise after a while it fells too much on a "find the hidden block" feature that I personally don't like a lot.
